Careers Job Description
General Description
Four positions: We are hiring four regional coordinator/health educators to do field work, one in each of the following regions:
- OPWDD Region 2 (Syracuse/Rochester)
- OPWDD Region 3 (Capital District/Albany)
- OPWDD Region 4 (New York City)
- OPWDD Region 5 (Long Island)
The CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health (ISPH) is recruiting four Regional Coordinators/Health Educators for New York City, Long Island, Capital District/Albany and the Syracuse/Rochester area, for a 5-year NIH-funded randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a socialization and sex education program among individuals with mild to moderate developmental disabilities, under the direction of co-Principal Investigators Suzanne McDermott and Heidi Jones, faculty at the CUNY School of Public Health.
The randomized controlled trial (RCT) will test a socialization and sex education curriculum among 856 adolescents and young adults (ages 16-27) with Down syndrome and other types of mild/moderate intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) who receive services from the New York State Office of People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD). Half of the participants will be randomized to receive a socialization and sex education curriculum, and the other half a physical exercise and nutrition intervention. The interventions will be 6-weeks and there will be questionnaires administered at numerous points before and after the interventions.
This position involves (1) recruitment and informed consent of adolescents and young adults, ages 16-27 years, who agree to participate in the study and to be randomly assigned to a reproductive health intervention or a healthy living intervention, (2) conducting a survey with each individual before the intervention, and (3) providing the delivery of the health education interventions in their home (for the Reproductive Health arm) and in small groups (for the Healthy Living arm). The Regional Coordinator/Health Educator will have a caseload of approximately 12 individuals for weekly one-on-one meetings and 2 groups of 6 individuals for weekly one-on-one group sessions during each 6-week cycle. The start date is April 1, 2023 (or mutually agreed upon alternative).
Other Duties
The Regional Coordinator/Health Educator will be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the study within their Region of OPWDD and will be supervised by the Project Manager and the Co-Principal Investigators, through weekly in-person and/or remote meetings. The job involves field work providing both in-home individual instruction and group session. Mileage reimbursement will be provided within the region.
Regional Coordination duties include:
- Making contact with disability service providers and attendance at Service Provider meetings, to encourage recruitment
- Recruitment of study participants through service providers
- Administration of informed consent/assent to participants
- Scheduling appointments, maintaining accurate visit completion records, and data entry
- Administering surveys before the intervention to all participants
- After receiving training on the interventions, implementing the 6-week individual socialization and sex education curriculum (in people’s homes) for 12 individuals per cycle, and two 6-week group physical and nutrition intervention (in community meeting places) groups, each cycle. Assignment to the individual or group intervention will be based on randomization scheme
- Working with self-advocates/lived experience consultants to identify solutions to challenges that arise
- Completing progress reports
Qualifications
- At least two years of fieldwork experience with adolescents or adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD)
- At least a bachelor’s degree (BA or BS)
- Ability to travel within region to provide the intervention in people’s homes or in community settings
- Evidence of collaboration with colleagues
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.
RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
CUNY ISPH
Full Time
$57,000.00 - $62,000.00
May 22, 2023 (Or Until Filled)